All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

He who prays most receives most.

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.